guardafangos

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of guarda (“to protect (originally)”) +‎ fangos (“muds”).

Noun

guardafangos m (plural guardafangos)

1. fender (of car)

Further reading

• “guardafangos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10